Looking for a political science professor who can provide additional perspective to your election stories? Cal State LA Professor Taylor Dark is available to be interviewed on many topics related to the presidential election, particularly in the role of labor unions in national politics. He has also closely followed the Trump campaign.

Dark teaches courses covering such topics as political parties and interest groups, labor policy, and Congress and the presidency. He authored numerous articles on labor unions in American politics, and national electoral politics more generally (especially the Democratic party). He published The Unions and Democrats: An Enduring Alliance, with Cornell University Press, 2001. Dark received his M.Sc. in government from the London School of Economics and Political Science and his Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley.

For further assistance, please contact the Communications and Public Affairs office at Cal State LA, (323) 343-3050.

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